England: Its People, Polity, and Pursuits, المجلد 1Cassell, 1881 - 565 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 410 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
الصفحة 462 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
الصفحة 278 - she could dismiss all the sailors too; she could sell off ' all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could ' make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin ' a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make ' every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, ' a peer; she could make every parish in the United ' Kingdom a "university;" she could dismiss most of ' the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders.
الصفحة 389 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
الصفحة 336 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
الصفحة 279 - Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.
الصفحة 132 - But whilst these outrages must be admitted to exist to an alarming extent, it cannot be denied that they have arisen from circumstances of the most unparalleled distress. The perseverance of these miserable men in their proceedings, tends to prove that nothing but absolute want could have driven a large, and once honest and industrious, body of the people, into the commission iv. , 33 of excesses so hazardous to themselves, their families, and the community.
الصفحة 398 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone.
الصفحة 503 - Our Own Country. An Illustrated Geographical and Historical Description of the Chief Places of Interest in Great Britain.
الصفحة 388 - Round the physical feeling forming the nucleus of the whole, are gathered the feelings produced by personal beauty, that constituting simple attachment, those of reverence, of love of approbation, of self-esteem, of property, of love of freedom, of sympathy. These, all greatly exalted, and severally tending to reflect their excitements on one another, unite to form the mental state we call love."* Hence emotional, moral, and intellectual qualities may, by evoking affection, approbation, or admiration,...